Stickers and Stamps

 First off, I want to share my Unscripted sketch card with you.  Here is the sketch. 

 I really like the sketch this week.  It was simple and fun.  Part of the fun comes with the Little Yellow Bicycle supplies. 

 The fun flowers are stickers. I just love this particular collection of papers and stickers.

 My next card represents some "play time"! I love to experiment.  I placed a stencil down on plain white cardstock and sprayed this with the blue Chalkboard Glimmer Mist.  After I finished spraying, I realized that I had lots of spray on the entire stencil so I carefully picked it up and turned it over onto another piece of plain white cardstock.  All of that extra blue ink was now on my paper.  Next, with the stencil in place, I sprayed it with yellow so that they yellow Chalkboard Glimmer Mist colored the vine design in the stencil. I just loved the resulting combination.  I also colored white seam binding with the same yellow spray.

 The little butterflies are a stamp by Inkadinado.  I thought stamping them with the solid black was a good contrast.

And for a few photos...

 I am having a ball with my Hipstamatic camera app on my phone. I just stand and keep changing the lens and films!  We went to walk around our harbor the other day so I had to capture some photos of the boats.

 Here is another lens/film combo for a completely different look.

This photo is of some wind wheels. 
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 122 – THANK YOU card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers and stickers – Little Yellow Bicycle
Rub-on sentiment – EAD Designs/Paper Smooches

YOU ARE MY REASON WHY card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Border and corner punch – Martha Stewart
Ribbon – Really Reasonable Ribbon
Stencil – Layers of Color
Spray mist – Chalkboard/Glimmer Mist
Butterfly stamp – Inkadinkado
Stamp sentiment – Technique Tuesday
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous

Loving color

I found myself playing along with a couple "color" challenges this week. 

The first one is with The Play Date Cafe.  Does this say SUMMER???

 This card is made up of some of the scraps on my table. I am not ever good at cleaning up and one reason is because of the inspiration I find in my mess!!!  Plus you can see my newest border punch!!! That cute sentiment is from a set of rub-ons by EAD Designs and Paper Smooches. 

The flower is cut from a piece of patterned paper by 3 Bugs in a Rug.   I love to cut elements out of patterned papers.  I accented the little white dots with Bead paint by Tulip. 

 Next comes the Unscripted sketch for this week that includes a piggyback color challenge. 

Again, I relied on some of my scraps.  I picked up what was leftover from this piece of paper and saw that the colors in the challenge were in it.  I'm not sure I got the colors correct exactly but I see a challenge as just that, a challenge and it does not have to be perfect.

AND, do you see how I used my brand new Cricut Expression!!! LOVE this thing.  The cartridge is Stamping and I cut the phrase at 2". 

                                

 And you know that tomorrow is Father's Day.  We have already had two celebrations just trying to catch up with all of the families schedules!  I have actually already shared this card in the past but it needed to be shared again since it fits for Dad.  It fits along with the Little Red Wagon challenge for something for Dad.

Notice all of that texture? I love texture for a masculine card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

NEVER TOO OLD… card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Sun Kissed Summer/BoBunny, (Flower)Chloe/3 Bugs in a Rug and Little Boy/Echo Park
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Rub-on sentiment – EAD Designs/Paper Smooches
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Bead paint- Tulip
Self adhesive rhinestone – Recollections
Foam tape – 3M
Machine sewing



SKETCH 111 – MISSING YOU card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Sun Kissed Stripe/BoBunny
Cut sentiment – Cricut cartridge/Stamping (2”)
Corner punch – Fiskars
Scallop scissors
Buttons – Dress It Up

Did you stamp today?

It is like a fever - gotta stamp almost everyday!

And, today I want to share a couple cards that I used stamping on.

This is the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger inspiration piece.

My first card is based on the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger.  I love challenges and always want to play but don't always have time but I made time for this one.

The chair is a rub-on that I just picked up at Michaels. I knew it fit perfectly with the challenge.  I created my own "wallpaper" looking background with a flourish kind of stamp from Impress Rubber Stamps.  I have had this stamp for awhile now and it was fun to pull it out. After I stamped it with an Ancient page stamp pad, I sprayed the white background with Glimmer Mist and rubbed it here and there with a Brilliance stamp pad. 

I also saw in the Trigger, either a wood looking floor or table so I wanted to add that look.  I have a mini stamp that I purchased at Michaels awhile back and that worked just right for my little accent strip that is edged with my brand new border punch by Martha Stewart.  The flower is one that I have had for ages from Prima. It was just what I needed to finish my look. 

This also fits the Little Red Wagon challenge for this week to use something old and something new on a creation.

My next card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. I love sketches and I thought this was another fun one to interpret. 

The middle piece is a white circle that I embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder. 

The label is a stamp by Gina K as is the sentiment.  After I finished the card I realized how the pattern in the label matched the embossed design of the card base.  That card base cardstock is Core Impressions by Core'dinations.  It comes with the embossed design in it already.

And for a few pics from this last weekend...

 We went to the pumpkin patch. This is such a fun farm to visit. Here they are climbing a hay pyramid.  Grandpa and sissy are waiting at the top!

What a cute photo op!

The red barn on the farm is so perfect for a photo background.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

REFRESH card

Materials list:
Cardstock – The Chocolate Box/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Baby Safari/Little Yellow Bicycle
Chair rub-on – Michaels
Flourish/Damask stamp – Impress Rubber Stamps
Animal print stamp – Michaels
Black Versafine stamp pad
Ancient Page stamp pad – Clearsnap
Brilliance stamp pad
Distress stamp pad - Ranger
Self Adhesive rhinestone – Queen & Co.
Flower - Prima
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Rub-on sentiment – Making Memories
Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper


SKETCH 188 – THE LORD BLESS YOU… card

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper - BasicGrey
Frame and sentiment stamp - Gina K
Green stamp pad – Versafine
Black stamp pad – Versafine
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Embossing plate - Sizzix
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Flower Soft and Impression-Obsession stamps BLOG HOP

Yeah, a blog hop! What a fun way to share a whole ton of goodness.  Today's blog hop is with the Flower Soft Design Team and the Impression-Obsession stamps Design Team. 

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be 4 prize winners chosen randomly among the blogs.                          

Two $25 gift certificates from Flower Soft and two $25 gift certificates from Impression Obsession!!!

The prize winners will be announced on the Flower Soft Blog and The Impression Obsession blog on Wednesday August 18th.

If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.

I have already mentioned a few times how much fun it is to use Flower Soft on a project and today I am going to use some Ultra Fine Flower Soft with a super cute stamp from Impression-Obsession.The stamp I used is from a set called "Refreshments". Every stamp in this set is just beyond CUTE and fun to use.  My card also fits the Little Red Wagon challenge to create something with a SUMMER theme.

After I colored my image with Copic markers, I applied the Tacky Glue and then added the Citrus Crush Ultra Fine Flower Soft to my lemon slices.  I only added the Flower Soft to portions of the lemon slices.  I knew that if I completely covered them, that would hide the little images.  By just accenting portions of the image, you can still see what the image is plus get the neat effect of the Flower Soft.

On the Strawberry and on the little umbrellas, I added some Strawberry Ultra Fine Flower Soft.  Again, I didn't cover the entire image so that you could see the Flower Soft and still see the image. 

From my blog, be sure to progress onto the next blog in the hop, Kathy Menzies

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SWEET THINGS card

Materials list:
Citrus Crush and Strawberry/Ultra Fine Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Cosmo Cricket
Versafine Black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Stamps – Refreshments/Impressions Obsession
Copic markers
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Sweet Peas Galore

How about some goodness with my new Sweet Pea stamp from PaperTrey, Inc, a fabulous colour combo from Embellish Magazine and the Card Patterns sketch for this week? 

All I needed to do was to take one look at this amazing color combo and I knew I wanted to play. In fact, that green, pink and brown are so yummy together, I would like to just keep making cards to go with it! (I forgot the challenge was to include a bird with the colors so I guess this one doesn't count but I like it anyway)

I loved the simple patterned paper look on the sketch and knew that I could create a similar look by just stamping an outline flower and not coloring it in. So, my sweet pea stamp was used to create the background by stamping it in a strong pink on white cardstock. 

I stamped one spray of the sweet peas and cut that in a square, coloring in that portion with Copic markers.  When I was done, I sprayed the entire piece with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist and I just wish you could see the great, subtle sparkle that gave my card.

Notice the embossed design in the card base.  That is Core Impressions cardstock by Core'dinations. 

This next card uses my sweet pea stamp in a very different way. Every single piece of paper on this card was a scrap! I used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch to create this card plus the black striped circle fits with the Little Red Wagon challenge.   

I stamped just one of the flowers on the spray on patterned paper and then stamped two of the leaves on another piece of patterned paper.

Notice the embossed design in this card base, another piece of Core Impressions by Core'dinations.  I used my brand new Tim Holtz embossing plate on the white cardstock. 

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And to share yet another photo

A little boys attempt to "walk the doggie"!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

ROMANCE card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Jillibean Soup/Core’dinations
Patterned paper
Versafine colored stamp pad
Stamps and buttons – Sweet Pea/PaperTrey, Inc.
Copic markers
Glimmer Mist spray – Tattered Angels
Rub-on word – Making Memories
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Cosmo Cricket/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye and BasicGrey
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Stamps – Sweet Pea/PaperTrey, Inc.
Embossing folder – Tim Holtz/Sizzex
Self adhesive Silver pearls – Mark Richards, Inc.
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Sentiment sticker - SRM
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Christmas in July ideas

Seems like everywhere I turn, I am hearing the words, "Christmas in July". Today the news was talking about stores that were having some good deals for early shopping with the thought of "Christmas in July". Unscripted Sketches has been making a feature of this subject all month long with ideas, games, recipes and of course, the sketches.

Tomorrow, the 21st, is my day to be featured at the Unscripted Sketches blog and so I wanted to share a couple easy ideas with you.

Maybe it's because I am a chocoholic but I think that a little gift of candy is a great idea. Something you can hand to the neighbors or co-workers. Maybe a party favor for the many holiday parties that take place. This first one is super simple and it is also a way to recycle. I used a little plastic tub that holds baby food. At one time, we were going through many of these and I knew they would be good for something. SOOOO... I filled one with Christmas colored M&M's and made a very simple decoration for the top. My little decoration is a snowman stamp by Cornish Heritage Farms. This was finished with a big bow.

For this one, I folded a piece of cardstock so that it wrapped a little bag of candy. The design on the front is actually a digital stamp. I printed it out on colored cardstock and made a paper piecing out of it so the tree has layers that are embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Core'dinations cardstock makes it easy to make this pretty cute. This one also fits the Little Red Wagon challenge #37 to use a tree on a project.

Here is a side view so you can see the bag of candy tucked inside. These truffles came in a little bag so it was all ready to go.

Thanks for visiting here and at Unscripted sketches, Linda (lbpost)

Oh, A-CardMaking I will go

On a search to find sketches to work with, I came up with several and so, I have several cards to share with you. I am only go to share a few today and more later.

This first card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week and some of my favorite patterned papers from We R Memorys Keepers. What a fun sketch!

These tiny little cupcakes pieces are from Pretty Little Studio Etsy store.

This card was created for the Little Red Wagon challenge to "Put a Window in It". I love the peek-a-boo look that this creates and these products from Nikki Sivils just seemed like the perfect choice for my little round window. The clouds and the tiny bee came on this piece of patterned paper and I cut out the larger bee and added it with foam tape.

The little honeycomb piece and the other bee are cut from die cuts in this Willow Bee collection. You can barely see it but I added some Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip on the edges of my clouds for a little sparkle.

Because of my little inside piece, I wanted to finish the inside too so I added this great patterned paper to the inside. You can barely see the Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip that I added to the bees wings.

(CARD REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION)

And, this card uses a sketch that is posted at Caardvarks for their May challenge. It just seemed like a good time to pull out some Christmas papers.
The trees are part of one of the pieces of patterned papers in this collection by BoBunny, I just cut them out.
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And, we went to the zoo this last weekend, gotta share a few photos with you.

This guy is actually pretty small but doesn't he just look menacing anyway, floating like this?
Take note, these giraffe's have an OCEAN view!!! Can you believe that?

Can you make out the flamingos in the background of my photo? I love to take pics of the flamingos but I thought this was a fun perspective with the flower in front in focus.

And, this big, cracked open egg shell is in the kids play area. Our youngest grandson was having so much fun climbing in and out.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 168 – PARTY card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Letter stickers – David Walker
Cupcake shapes – Pretty Little Studio Etsy store
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Sandpaper

BEE MINE card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Black Magic collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Day Dreamer, Willow’s Bee Hive and Bee’s Cutie Cut-Ups/Willow Bee/Nikki Sivils
Stamps – Willow Bee stamps/Nikki Sivils
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Aleene's Paper Glaze



‘TIS THE SEASON/TREES card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – ‘Tis the Season collection/BoBunny
Rub-on sentiments - BoBunny
Glitter brad - Doodlebug
Apron lace border punch - Fiskars
Circle punches – Papershapers

It is all about MOM this weekend

Since this is Mother's Day weekend, I wanted to post a couple cards with that theme in mind.

This first card is a rough take on the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. I used a photo that I took on our recent trip to a rose farm. I love to take pictures and I love to use them on cards whenever I can. I thought that the flower and the color of the flower plus all of the great greens in the background resembled the Tuesday Trigger plus I thought a photo of a rose was the perfect way to make Mom a card.

This also fits in with the Cuttlebug Challenge blog's Be Inspired Challenge to use some Cuttlebug embossing on a card for Mom. I embossed a piece of white cardstock, one of my favorite looks. The little sentiment is created with mini sticker letters by Cosmo Cricket with an accent of some self adhesive red pearls.

This is my Card Positioning Systems card for this next week. JustRite stamps is the sponsor and while I was not in the group to help feature their stamps, since I have some I still wanted to use them and this little bunch of flowers is a perfect accent for Mom.

Typically the JustRite stamps are used with a center, like the flowers, with a border around them so the result is a circle design but I wanted to just use the flowers and then I cut them out.

Both of my cards also fit with the Little Red Wagon challenge to use pink and green, great colors for MOM!

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And for a few photos, guess what I bought when I visited a Farmer's Market and a cupcake store this last week!

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend, today was filled with lots of grandkids time for this grandma and then time with our kids and grandkids tomorrow!
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

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LOVE YOU MOM card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
My Own Photo
Cuttlebug embossing plate
Sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket
Sandpaper
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

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SKETCH 166 – MOM card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Quite Contrary:Mary Mary “Best of Friends”/My Mind’s EyeLabel shape – My Mind’s Eye
Stamps – Just Rite stamps
Letter stickers – David Walker
Copic Markers
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stamps n’ Stuff
Self adhesive Pearls and Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Sandpaper